Short Object Shift and Duality of Floating Quantifiers in Korean

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This article presents a novel analysis showing that Korean objects always move out of the VP where they are generated and often travel through hallmark positions of VP-adverbs. Although this analysis, referred to as short object shift in this article, appears to run counter to several constraints of movement, it will be shown to admit of a principled account if we make full use of the minimalist ideas behind Chomsky's (2013, 2015) labeling algorithm, in combination with the noun formation concepts of Borer (2005a, b), Sportiche (2005), and others. The combined system reduces clausal structures by dispensing with AgrOP, and more importantly derives the dual nature of quantifier float that has been controversial over the past decades. This path of the minimalist approach receives further credit in comparison with Boskoviç’s (2004) analysis on the so-called ‘the Ban on Quantifier Float in Θ–positions(BQFT).’ Because, in the present system, full nouns are only available in derived positions but not in Θ–positions, it can naturally be expected that floating quantifiers, which require full nouns for interpretations, appear in non-Θ–positions.

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